Make greenhouse gas elimination more affordable by using Western Climate Initiatives or other cap and trade dollars to subsidize local efforts. This assumes we best WCI/other standards for GHG elimination, the basis for cap and trade.”

1. The total annual emissions, with each type of GHG gas taxed at a different rate, depending on their effect on the atmosphere, soil, plants water and living things. For instance releasing CO2 would be taxed less than releasing N2O.
2. There would also be an “avoidable” tax. A company which is producing GHG, and could reduce or eliminate such production, but fails to do so after warning, is taxed on the amount of GHG they could have eliminated had they followed the warning. This tax would be an incentive to companies to spend the time and money cleaning-up their own production. This tax is additive to No. 1. Feasibility would include an annual determination (probably a national one) of the value of a human life – say 1.9 million – and the health costs due to pollution and the lost wages due to pollution. Using a Gaussian Plume Model, one could assess the population affected by the point source, then calculate the damages to the population, then compare that to the cost of retrofitting the plan to reduce or eliminate the pollution. The net difference would be taxed at a rate set by the Legislature. See: